Tag: Mali

Attractions La Boucle du Baoule National Park The diverse flora and fauna of the southern Sahara can be admired in La Boucle-du-Baoule National Park, which is home to giraffes, leopards, lions, elephants, buffalo and hippos, among others. Djenne Djenne is one of the oldest trading towns on the Trans-Saharan caravan route. The city was founded in 1250 […]

CULTURE The village is the most widespread form of settlement, as is the rest of the Sudanese region. It is very often divided into neighborhoods with thickened dwellings, separated by winding streets, a survival of the ancient defensive systems. Sometimes the neighborhoods are very far from each other: they are the sokala, resulting from the […]